The adventures of Geralt and his bathtub are two years old this month, but whaddya know: this is probably still the prettiest game on PC. A video by Youtuber Thirty IR has been making the rounds (thanks, Kotaku) showing Geralt gallivanting at 8K, which Youtube apparently supports at 60 frames per second! Even if you don't have an 8K monitor (hell, we don't) you can still enjoy a ludicrously downsampled video on your monitor. Jaggies will be but a distant memory.
The 7680x4320 video is the result of four GTX Titan Xps in SLI pushing 33 million pixels. That's four times as many pixels as 4K, which is still out of reach of most PC gaming hardware. Naturally, the full system specs are equally intense:
- Monitor: Dell UP3218K - 8K IPS LCD Monitor
- GPUs: 4x GTX TITAN Xp (2017) 4 WAY SLI @ 2038Mhz / 13358Mhz
- MoBo: Asus Rampage V Extreme (X99)CPU: i7 6950X @ 4.30GHz
- RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 3200Mhz (64GB)
- PSU: Corsair AX1500i
- CASE: Cooler Master Cosmos II
- OS: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
- Games/Programs: Samsung 840 EVO (RAID-0) / Samsung 850 EVO
That's almost $7,000 worth of gear just for the graphics card and CPU. All the settings, naturally, are on Ultra.
Thirty IR recommends watching the video in Microsoft's new Edge browser, but we had a bit more luck in Chrome. Either way, you may have to play around with your hardware acceleration to ensure smooth playback.
As Netflix's The Witcher Season 4 loses another star, once again I feel compelled to tap the 'this no-budget YouTube fan film does the Witcher better' sign
I can only assume this upcoming Witcher children's book takes it easy on the folk horror, fantasy racism, and brutal violence I associate with the series
